"Dr. Zhao, Liu Gong is a PhD graduate from MIT. I really went to great lengths to get him to stay with the company."

Wang Yaoqing said proudly. Although education isn't everything, a PhD from MIT, one of the world's renowned universities, is of significant value. Being able to hire a computer science PhD from MIT demonstrates his high aspirations for the company.

"My apologies for not realizing earlier."

Hearing this from Wang Yaoqing, Zhao Heng immediately looked at the balding engineer in front of him with newfound respect. This was truly someone who kept their talents hidden.

Having an MIT computer science PhD as the chief programming development engineer also showed that Wang Yaoqing had more foresight than Zhao Heng initially thought.

Speaking of software development in the country, the ecosystem has never been particularly good. Many software development companies primarily focus on developing purely English software for overseas markets. This is mainly because domestic software cracking teams are too formidable.

However, for highly specialized software like medical software, hospitals generally do not use pirated versions. After all, this software is used for patients and is a matter of life and death. Using pirated software means lacking many core data and functions.

This is why Wang Yaoqing values the collaboration with Zhao Heng so much.

"I'm wondering, Dr. Zhao, what kind of framework do you use for data collection?"

Liu Gong asked a very professional question. He wanted to assess Zhao Heng's programming skills to determine the level of collaboration and communication required in future software development work with Zhao Heng.

After all, as the boss Wang Yaoqing mentioned before, Zhao Heng is just a doctor and not a professional in programming and software development.

"Liu Gong, I use CNN for feature extraction."

Zhao Heng replied. Although his level in software development and programming isn't as high as his medical expertise, by assimilating the skills and experiences of almost all the hospital's medical equipment engineers, his software development and programming skills are no less than ordinary software engineers.

Not to mention, working at a big corporation as a regular programmer doesn't seem to be a problem for Zhao Heng.

"CNN feature extraction utilizes convolutional kernels, which are suitable for fully connected neural networks but not quite for types such as logistics. If it's for image data extraction, radiomics imaging feature extraction could be used."

Liu Gong pondered for a moment and said.

Upon hearing this from Zhao Heng, Liu Gong's eyes lit up. From just this, he knew Zhao Heng was knowledgeable.

And based on what Wang Yaoqing previously mentioned, Dr. Zhao is also an outstanding doctor in his primary profession. It's no wonder the boss, Wang Yaoqing, was willing to offer significant terms to collaborate with Zhao Heng.

"Actually, if it's for clinical use, I think incorporating artificial neural networks, that is, programming a BP artificial neural network, would allow for some level of intelligent judgment."

After a pause, Liu Gong offered a very professional opinion.

"Yes, actually I had that in mind, but programming artificial neural networks is incredibly challenging. With my current technical skills, it's still very difficult to write an artificial neural network."

Hearing Liu Gong's very professional opinion, Zhao Heng also realized that Liu Gong's level was indeed impressive. Incorporating artificial neural networks in the software being developed could allow for partial disease diagnosis, significantly expanding the software's functionality and application scope.

"Dr. Zhao is a professional doctor, and to have reached this level of programming proficiency, spanning across disciplines and self-learning to this extent, is truly remarkable."

Liu Gong didn't hold back on complimenting Zhao Heng.

Medicine and computer programming are among the most difficult disciplines in the natural sciences to grasp, with mastery even more challenging.

The fact that Zhao Heng could cross the boundaries between medicine and computer programming and achieve in both fields at a young age was astonishing to Liu Gong, an MIT graduate.

Even at MIT, geniuses who could bridge both medicine and programming and achieve success in both were rare.

Seeing the pleasant exchange between Zhao Heng and Liu Gong, a smile appeared at the corner of Wang Yaoqing's mouth. Both of them would be the driving force behind software development in the future, and both could be considered geniuses. The fact that they could get along so well dispelled Wang Yaoqing's slightest worries.

"Actually, I have an even better idea, but with the current technical level, it's very difficult to realize."

Zhao Heng thought for a moment and said, in terms of developing an anesthesia assistant, the difficulty in software development isn't too high. The challenge lies in having someone proficient in both medicine and software development to establish various drug and disease data models, then create a database to analyze patient data in real-time, draw results, and provide alerts and assistance to anesthesiologists for clinical anesthesia.

"Oh? Dr. Zhao has an even better idea?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Gong couldn't help but express his interest.

Even Wang Yaoqing displayed a very interested expression. Although the development of the anesthesia assistant software would take at least half a year to see initial results, there was no harm in listening to Zhao Heng's ideas.

After all, the ideas of geniuses are often unorthodox, and even if they can't be realized now, listening to them could still be beneficial.

"Actually, I believe that artificial intelligence, or AI, can have very broad applications in the medical field."

Zhao Heng said.

"AI applications in the medical field? Dr. Zhao, could you elaborate?"

Liu Gong showed keen interest just listening to this.

Since it's about developing medical software, the boss, Wang Yaoqing, had briefed him on medical software applications, prompting him to learn more about it.

"Firstly, artificial intelligence can be applied in protein structure analysis. Just this year, DeepMind released a new version of the AlphaFold software. Based on AI technology, AlphaFold can efficiently predict specified structures, which will have a significant impact on the future of medicine."

"Secondly, AI can accelerate the research and development of vaccines and drugs. For viruses with sudden mutations that require rapid vaccine research, AI can analyze the effects of drugs on viruses during the vaccine development process, thus speeding up the assessment of vaccine efficacy and expediting vaccine development."

Zhao Heng spoke eloquently, clearly indicating that he had been paying attention to and understanding these fields.

Liu Gong and Wang Yaoqing were both engrossed in listening.

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